Industrial Design in Vietnam

1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...

If the applicant to whom the NOIP has sent a notice on its intended refusal of the application fails to correct errors or unsatisfactorily corrects errors or makes no opposition or makes unreasonable opposition to the intended rejection within the set time limit,the NOIP shall send a notice on its refusal of the application[...]

Use of an industrial design is regulated by Vietnam IP law as follows:

Amendment and supplementation of Industrial design applications are carried out as follows:

(1) Filing the application In order to obtain right for industrial design in Viet Nam,you must file the application for granting an industrial design patent,directly or by mail,to the National Office of Intellectual Property of Viet Nam (NOIP) or its brand offices in Ho Chi Minh City or Da Nang. Organizations,individuals...

SBLaw would like to provide legal service for filling industrial design in Vietnam as follows:

In today's era of smart manufacturing and automation, industrial hardware such as autonomous vehicles (AGVs/AMRs) acts as the operational backbone of modern factories. Proactively establishing exclusive intellectual property (IP) rights over proprietary hardware designs is a vital move to secure a technological monopoly and defend corporate market share. SBLAW is...

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

In the intellectual property registration process, receiving an office action or a refusal notice from examiners due to subjective evaluations or oversight in prior art citations is not uncommon. However, for a tier-one Intellectual Property Agent, such challenges serve as a proving ground for expertise and resilience. SBLAW is proud...

SBLAW would like to provide the client the legal procedure to register industrial design in Vietnam as follows: 1. Procedure  Protection criteria: A industrial design shall be eligible for protection in the form of the grant of a Patent for Industrial Design when it satisfies the following conditions: Being novel Being of an inventive...

In order to register your industrial design in Vietnam, We would like the Power of Attorney (POA) from your firm[...]

The refusal accept the valid application of Vietnam Industrial design registration is realized as follows[...]

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.